Existentialist Ethics

From Nietzsche to Sartre and Beyond

Bibliographic Data

ID12902207
AuthorsNeil Aaron Thompson (0000-0001-8689-5287, Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume2
Issue1
Pages10-23
Publication date2008-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthics and Social Welfare (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-6535 • E-ISSN: 1749-6543
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17496530801948705
OpenAlexW2092811427
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited30

Ethics are, of course, a fundamental part of professional practice. There are different philosophical schools of thought relating to ethics and, although there are often degrees of overlap, they are characterized more by difference than harmony. Among these philosophical schools, one school that has received relatively little attention in the professional literature (and a waning level of interest in the philosophical literature) is that of existentialism. This article outlines some of the main points of ethical theory in the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the founders of existentialist thought, and Jean-Paul Sartre, the best known of the existentialist thinkers, as well as other contributors to existentialist thought. Possible developments in existentialist ethical theory since the time of Sartre are also sketched out, and these are linked to contemporary social work concerns

Epistemology · Existentialism · Harmony (color · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Ethics in medical practice · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice

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